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bitmapbrother on July 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Braid Code Cleanup (part 1)

>Visual Studio 2015 / Add notelemetry.obj to link line to reduce Microsoft adware potential.

It's quite sad that you need to proactively add a notelemetry.obj to your link line to turn off telemetry when generating your code.

poizan42 on July 20, 2016 [–]

It's for ETW. It's not doing any telemetry unless you use it for telemetry. Also I think they removed the initialization code from being linked in by default in the latest update.

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